A robust and real-time image based lane departure warning system

Lane departure warning (LDW) systems have gained a lot of interest over the last few years. EuroNCAP regulations mandate European car makers to have LDW system to get star rating. In this paper, we propose a simple image-based implementation of LDW system optimized for the Texas Instruments (TI) C66x Digital Signal Processor (DSP). We show that our solution is able to overcome certain challenges faced in prior methods and consumes only 2.3 mega cycles/frame of the DSP, leaving the rest of the DSP for other applications. We also share some results of our implementation.